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[Chopdoc]

One of my favs!

That reminded me. I do have challenge coins mostly from over 20 years ago.

I have one I was given by a prominent officer in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps for service in COVID.

All of the members of the Corps are officers by the way.

I wasn't bored for the five years I wasn't posting here, I will say that.

No, I wasn't in the Commissioned Corps.

Fun fact. The only MOH awarded to a woman was in fact awarded to a doctor. She did in fact earn it as a civilian.

 

[trob]

I was always good with the trophies . I got rid of a ton of them when we down sized. I never cared much about the money I won.. I guess gamblers care more about that because it’s how they measure who won lol I got a job for money.
I guess my favorite example is of all the tournaments I won there is one I won with 3 friends. It was a large tournament that took 3 days. It was exhausting but we all played great. We all made great shots or had tough outs when it was needed. I was younger and the feeling leaving that tournament was worth more then the stack of money I got for winning. I have no idea what I spent that money on but the picture I have of the 4 us standing at the table with our cues after we won it has been hanging in my pool room for years and thats worth more to me.

 

[T411]

I was always good with the trophies . I got rid of a ton of them when we down sized. I never cared much about the money I won.. I guess gamblers care more about that because it’s how they measure who won lol I got a job for money.
I guess my favorite example is of all the tournaments I won there is one I won with 3 friends. It was a large tournament that took 3 days. It was exhausting but we all played great. We all made great shots or had tough outs when it was needed. I was younger and the feeling leaving that tournament was worth more then the stack of money I got for winning. I have no idea what I spent that money on but the picture I have of the 4 us standing at the table with our cues after we won it has been hanging in my pool room for years and thats worth more to me.

Trying to get in the head of why a person likes to gamble at pool is only a guess… there’s too many reasons why. Myself I’ve never understood people that have an “I love me wall.” I’ve never given a shit what others think. I’ve spent 30 years in the military and I’ve never hung or displayed one award or medal up on the wall or in a display case. If fact when I retired I threw all the actual medals in the trash. I kept the certificate that accompanied the presentation along with my DD Form 214 showing that I actually earned them. That paperwork is somewhere in a file that I could probably find if I ever needed to… I can’t think of a reason why though.

I make and sell display cases for many people in the military or that are retiring that want to display all of their “I love me” items… I’ve never understood it but to each their own.

I’ll take $5 over any trophy any day. At least I could enjoy a couple of sodas for free with a friend.

I will say in regards trophies and stories… when my mom passed away a couple of years ago I was going through her stuff that she had packed away in boxes and I found a trophy that I won in an 8-ball tournament at a youth center at Fairchild AFB when I was 9 years old. Even then as a youngster the trophy didn’t mean all that much to me. I do remember winning easily against older kids and that’s what meant something to me. I hadn’t seen that thing since the day that I won it back in 1976. The funny part of all of that to me is, and I’m sure many pool players can relate to this… pool was a HUGE source of contention between my mother and father when I was growing up. I was extremely lucky to have two really unbelievably great parents that stayed married until the day my mother passed away. But if there ever was a reason that they were ever to split up and get divorced it would have been because of my dad’s pool playing and believe me, it almost happened more than once. That’s why it intrigued me that my mom held on to that trophy all these many years. I miss her every day!